Savandurga
One of Asia's largest monoliths, climbed before breakfast.
- Where
- Ramanagara, Karnataka, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 12.9197, 77.2929
Get the Savandurga stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Savandurga. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Karnataka volume with your photos and a note.
Near Savandurga
Ramanagara 23 km
Sholay's rocks, and vultures still nesting on them.
Shivagange 29 km
A hill shaped like a lingam, with a ghee that turns to butter.
Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple 29 km
A cave temple in Bengaluru where the sun passes between the horns of a stone bull each Makara Sankranti.
ISKCON Bangalore 30 km
A hill temple opened in 1997, its gopuram and glass tower an argument about what a modern temple can look like.
Bull Temple 30 km
A Nandi four and a half metres tall carved from one granite boulder in the sixteenth century, when the town was new.
Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace 31 km
Teak pillars and painted plaster, finished in 1791, the last four years of a court that fought the British four times.
K. R. Market 31 km
The flower market at the heart of old Bengaluru, at its best before six in the morning when the marigolds arrive by the tonne.
Channapatna Toy Town 31 km
Lacquered wooden toys turned on hand lathes since Tipu Sultan brought Persian craftsmen to teach the trade.
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Questions
Where is Savandurga?
Savandurga is in Ramanagara, Karnataka. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Ramanagara (23 km), Shivagange (29 km), Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple (29 km).
How do I get the Savandurga stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Savandurga and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Karnataka volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Savandurga before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Karnataka volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
Collect your first stamp.
LOQAH is free on iPhone and Android, in India and 20 more countries, with more countries on the way. Stand at a place, collect its stamp, and keep every trip in a passport that grows.